John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.

My prediction that the AHIMA Convention would be all ICD-10 all the time was generally true. ICD-10 is on the mind of everyone at the conference. Although, I did hear one attendee that was really happy to find someone that could talk EHR data conversion. They also predicted that next year there would be the year of EHR data conversion. We’ll see how that plays out. I still think next year might be a lot of people complaining about ICD-10.

I’m always impressed by the people I meet at AHIMA. They’re a wonderful group of people that are devoted to the cause of healthcare. These people have some pretty tough and often mundane jobs that often don’t get paid very well, but they do it with such class and dignity. It’s always a pleasure to be around such an amazing group of people.

I’m definitely inspired to do a weekly series of ICD-10 blog posts. I’ll look at starting that next week. Hopefully we can bring out of denial some of the people that aren’t focused on the impacts that ICD-10 can have on their organization. Not to mention the training needs that many have for ICD-10.

I’ve also shot a number of great videos with people I’ve met at AHIMA. They’re short and sweet and hit on a specific subject. I think they impart some good wisdom. Be sure to subscribe to the Healthcare Scene YouTube channel to get the latest video uploads. Plus, we’ll be posting them across the Healthcare Scene network over time.

Are you ready for ICD-10? Are there ICD-10 topics you’d like to see covered in the future? I’d love to hear your thoughts about it in the comments.